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'''Astelan ''' was a [[Chapter ]] [[Commander ]] in the old [[Dark Angels ]] [[Legion]], and is considered one of the [[Fallen Angels]]. He achieved his position before the Dark Angels were joined by their [[Primarch]], [[Lion El'Jonson]].
After finding out that Trialartes was secretly smuggling weapons to unsavory organizations, he accompanied the smuggler to the mercenary port of Port Imperial. Here he met Brothers Methelas and Anovel, two other Fallen Angels. They proceeded to systematically commandeer weapons systems and armour plating from the other ships in the docks, before turning their newly acquired weapons on the ships they were stolen from as well as Port Imperial itself.
Tharsis had been primarily a farming world until Astelan's arrival, after which it was dominated by crime-rife cities and sprawling factories for making the weapons he used to win the war. During the final stages of the revolt against the Imperial Commander, one lone space pod had gotten out of the system and placed a distress call. The call was picked up by a Dark Angels ship passing by the sector, who retrieved the survivor and learned the story.
The Dark Angels sent [[Interrogator-Chaplain]] Boreas to investigate, who ended up fighting Tharsis' soldier population until Astelan realized who had come to the planet he now ruled. Astelan gave the order to stand down and allowed the Interrogator-Chaplain and his [[Deathwing ]] retinue into his command bunker, where he was placed under arrest and taken off-world for transport to the [[Tower of Angels ]] for interrogation. In the span of fifteen days, Boreas and his Librarian assistant Samiel pried at Astelan's mind with pain, torment, psychic abilities, and questions designed to undermine Astelan's view of the events that occurred, trying to get him to admit his sins and repent. Astelan struggled and survived, explaining much about the past of the Chapter and the old Legion before the Heresy. He explained that it was his order that set Caliban's guns ablaze against Lion El'Jonson's fleet when it returned, and he revealed that it was his voice that was lent to [[Luther]] when the [[Space Marines]] on Caliban were uncertain that they were being led in the right direction while watching over the planet.
After his interrogation, Astelan was taken from his interrogation chamber by [[Sapphon]], the Grand Master of [[Chaplains]], and placed in a cell in the deepest catacombs of the [[Rock]], where he lives hearing Luther cry out for salvation.
